Hare Of The Rabbit Podcast

Fee De Marbourg On this episode I am going to cover the Fee de Marbourg. Now online there is not a lot of information about this breed, for example from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; "The Fee de Marbourg rabbit (or Marburger) is a medium sized rabbit which originates from Germany, with Havana heritage, which is lilac in color." Now much of this history I was able to get from Domestic Rabbits and their Histories by Bob Whitman, which we will have a link to in the show notes. Germany is the original home of the Fee De Marbourg, also know as the Marburger. It was created by Miss Marie Sandemann. In 1912 she was given a rabbit from Mr. L. Peter, who was the caretaker of the school that her nephew attended. Miss Sandemann also raised Havanas, and she was delighted with the unusual color of this particular specimen, which was a doe, that had been breed from Mr. Peter's Havanas. She mated the doe with a silver colored buck, and all the offspring were black. The doe from Mr. Peter died when the litter was 10 w